Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Title and Copyright Information
• What's New in This Release
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 References
  • 1.2 Acronyms and definitions
  • 1.3 Terminology
  • 1.4 Limitations
  • 1.5 My Oracle Support
• 2 Virtual Network Functions Manager Overview
  • 2.1 Advantage of Using VNFM
• 3 VNFM Lifecycle Management Interfaces
• 4 VNFM OpenStack Prerequisites
  • 4.1 Prerequisite for Multiqueue on IPFE
  • 4.2 Enabling the Multiqueue Feature on IPFEs
• 5 Install and Configure VNFM
  • 5.1 Access VNFM Using the REST Interface
  • 5.2 VNFM Redundancy
  • 5.3 Configurable Server Affinity Policy
  • 5.4 VNFc Nomenclature
  • 5.5 Supported VNFs by VNFM
• 6 Uninstalling VNFM
• 7 Upgrading VNFM
  • 7.1 VNFM Upgrade Pre-requisites
  • 7.2 VNF Upgrade by VnfInstanceId
  • 7.3 All VNF Upgrades
    • 7.3.1 VNF State Diagram
• 8 VNFM User Management
  • 8.1 Access Control in VNFM
  • 8.2 Login to VNFM
  • 8.3 Register to VNFM
  • 8.4 Query All User Instances
  • 8.5 Change Password of the User
  • 8.6 Provision and Add User to VNFM
• 9 VNFM State Information
  • 9.1 Change VNFM State
    • 9.1.1 VNFM State Parameter Description
  • 9.2 Making VNFM as a Standalone VNFM
  • 9.3 Changing the Default Retry Configuration
  • 9.4 API Versions
• 10 Deploying VNFs
  • 10.1 Create a VNF Instance
  • 10.2 Query VNF Instance
    • 10.2.1 Query Individual VNF Instance
    • 10.2.2 Query All VNF Instances (VNFM-V1)
    • 10.2.3 Query all VNF Instances Using Filter
  • 10.3 Modify VNF Information Operation
  • 10.4 Deleting a VNF Instance
  • 10.5 Grant Lifecycle Operation (VNFM - V2)
  • 10.6 Instantiating VNFM Secondary
    • 10.6.1 Sample Request for DYNAMIC IP Model
    • 10.6.2 Sample Request for FIXED IP Model
      • 10.6.2.1 Dynamic and Fixed IP Deployment Parameter Description
  • 10.7 Instantiating the Network OAM VNF
  • 10.8 Instantiating the DR Network OAM VNF (VNFM-V1)
    • 10.8.1 Determining the DR NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 10.9 Multiple XSI Support (1 - 16 XSI interfaces) - VNFM V1
  • 10.10 Instantiating the Signaling VNF with Multiple XSI (1, 2, and 4 XSI Interface)
    • 10.10.1 DSR Signaling VNF with Multiple XSI Support (1, 2 & 4 xsi interface only)
    • 10.10.2 Instantiating the Signaling VNF with Service MP deployment
  • 10.11 Instantiating Multiple Signaling VNFs
  • 10.12 Instantiating the IDIH VNF
  • 10.13 Instantiating the SDS Network OAM VNF
  • 10.14 Instantiating the SDS DR Network OAM VNF
    • 10.14.1 Determining the SDS DR NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 10.15 Instantiating the SDS Signaling VNF
    • 10.15.1 Determining the Signaling IMI Resource IDs
    • 10.15.2 Determining the SDS NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 10.16 Instantiating the ATS Master VNF (VNFM-V1)
  • 10.17 Non-ConfigDrive VNF Instantiation
  • 10.18 Scale VNF to Level (Only Scale Out)
    • 10.18.1 Scale VNF to Level using InstantiationLevelId for DSR Signaling
    • 10.18.2 Scale VNF to Level using ScaleInfo
    • 10.18.3 IPFE and Service Mp Scale from Sizing 0
  • 10.19 Operate VNF
    • 10.19.1 Operate VNF Parameter Descriptions
• 11 VNF Instantiation across Multi Cloud / Multi Tenant / Multi Network
• 12 Heal VNF
  • 12.1 Query Heal VNF Requests
    • 12.1.1 Heal VNF Parameter Descriptions
• 13 Discover Stack
• 14 Query LCM Operation
  • 14.1 Query Individual LCM Operation
  • 14.2 Query All LCM Operation
  • 14.3 Query All LCM Operation Using Filter
• 15 Terminating a VNF
  • 15.1 Forceful Termination
  • 15.2 Graceful Termination
• 16 Segregation of OAM and Replication Traffic Support (VNFM - V1)
  • 16.1 Sample request for DYNAMIC IP model of NOAM VNF in Dual Subnet
  • 16.2 Sample request for DYNAMIC IP model of NOAM VNF in Single Subnet
  • 16.3 Sample request for FIXED IP model of NOAM VNF in Dual Subnet
  • 16.4 Sample request for FIXED IP model of NOAM VNF in Single Subnet
  • 16.5 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for dynamic IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
  • 16.6 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for dynamic IP in Single Subnet deployment model
  • 16.7 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for fixed IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
  • 16.8 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for fixed IP in Single Subnet deployment model
  • 16.9 Sample request for DSR DR NOAM for Dynamic IP in Mix Mode Subnet deployment model
  • 16.10 Sample request for DSR DR NOAM for Fixed IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
• 17 Changing the Default Configurations
  • 17.1 Changing Profile Name
  • 17.2 Enable VNFM Logs with Different Log Levels (DEBUG, TRACE, WARN, ERROR)
  • 17.3 Changing the Full Semantic Validation Configuration
• 18 Subscription Operation (VNFM - V2)
• 19 VNFM SNMP ALERTS
  • 19.1 VNFM Alarms
  • 19.2 VNFM MIB File
• 20 Import HTTPS/SSL Certificate into VNFM
  • 20.1 Recombine Existing PEM Keys and Certificates into VNFM
  • 20.2 Copy Created Certificate (vnfm_default.jks) into VNFM
  • 20.3 VNFM Self Signed Certificate Generation
• 21 Multiple HTTPS/SSL Certificate Support
  • 21.1 Configurable Keystore
• 22 NOAM IPv6 Migration
• 23 Troubleshooting VNFM
  • 23.1 Debug VNFM
  • 23.2 Adding Route for a New VIM
  • 23.3 Reboot Tomcat
  • 23.4 Resolve HA Alarms on VNF through VNFM Deployed Setup
  • 23.5 Adding a Port in Openstack Security Groups
  • 23.6 Debug SNMP System Alerts
  • 23.7 Configure Flavor and Instantiation Levels in VNFM
  • 23.8 Configuring DNS IP in VNFM
  • 23.9 Disable SSH Weak Key Exchange Algorithms
  • 23.10 Add or Update Certification
  • 23.11 Changing VNF CLI and DSR GUI Log in Credentials